Earlier this month, we examined LA Times blogger Todd Martens’ attempt to predict the nominees for the Best New Artist Grammy ahead of the Sept. 30 cutoff point for next year’s awards. Martens decided to take on the Album of the Year category this week, giving me (and you!) even more to post about and puzzle over.
Good news, everybody–it’s time for another “women in rock” festival! Yaaaay! And just to show you how much we haven’t progressed since Lilith Fair hit the road in 1997, we’ll just tell you the performers at this year’s inaugural GirlFrenzy (seriously) Festival by their rank on that Allegedly Hot… More »
The New York Times takes a moment to look at the dueling media endorsements of Sheryl Crow, who is currently plugging both the Wall Street Journal (at least until Rupert Murdoch gets his hands on it) and Self magazine. More »
It’s been a few weeks since we heard from M.C. Rove, the Blackberry-wielding, animal-head-biting rap alias of White House Deputy Chief Of Staff Karl Rove. There were rumors of his whereabouts everywhere you turned: Some insisted he was taking meetings about launching his own power drink, while others claim he was prepping his own version of The Drought (not a mixtape, mind you–rather, he wanted to slow down FEMA’s weather-division response time so much, it would cause actual droughts). But Saturday night, Rove returned, entering an East Coast/West Coast battle with shampoo-commercial composer Sheryl Crow.
